Unicode Character "μ" (U+03BC)

The character μ (Greek Small Letter Mu) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+03BC. It is encoded in the Greek and Coptic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as μ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Greek Small Letter Mu
Unicode Codepoint U+03BC
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Greek and Coptic
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character Μ (U+039C)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Greek
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+03BC Conversion

HTML (decimal) μ
HTML (hex) μ
HTML (named) μ
URL Escape Code %CE%BC
CSS \0003BC
JavaScript, JSON \u03BC
C, C++, Java \u03BC
Python \u03BC
Rust \u{03BC}
Ruby \u03BC

How to type "μ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 3 B C. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 3 B C. Release Alt.

Preview

  • μ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • μ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • μ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xCE 0xBC
UTF-16 (hex) 0x03BC
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000003BC

Characters based on "μ" (U+03BC)

References